Events...

Here are our bookclub meeting dates for 2010/2011:

Contemporary Fiction Book Club - 3rd Tuesdays Sept to Nov and Jan to May - 6:00 PM
For more details, click on our Book Clubs link.

Sunday, November 6th, 2011
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Annual Anniversary and Holiday Open House
Refreshments, LFBA coupons, Winter Catalogs, Author Appearance

1:00 - 3:00 PM

Author Mary Dejarlais will sign her new novel, Dorie Lavalle; A Minnesota Story of Moonshine and Murder

Sunday, December 4th, 2011
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Book Signing and Discussion with Darby Nelson
author of For Love of Lakes

Review Quotes:
For those of us who live in lake country, nothing is as fine as the mist rising in the early morning, or the pickerelweed in the midday sun, or the beaver slapping at dusk. Darby Nelson captures this glory; more, he tells us how we might preserve it against the myriad abuses now plaguing our freshwater oases.--Bill McKibben, author "Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet"

"Darby gracefully describes the beauty and ecology of lakes through rich personal and natural histories. This book engagingly challenges us to consider both our relationship with nature and how our choices affect its future.--Jonathan Higgins, Senior Aquatic Ecologist, The Nature Conservancy"

Early buzz on this book compares Darby Nelson's work to those masters of land and ecology, Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson. Nelson has already been contacted by Minnesota Public Radio for an upcoming interview.

Monday, December 19th, 2011
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Bookin' It - bringing the best of Minnesota to Little Falls.

Author Event Follow-up Notes:

Children's Picture Book Author and Illustrator Chris Monroe joined us for the 2011 Little Falls Arts & Crafts Fair Annual Book Signing. Her next book will be a collaboration with Kevin Kling.

Big Little Brother will be available in November 2011 and is written by Minnesota Storyteller and Playwright Kevin Kling and illustrated by Chris Monroe. IN STOCK at Bookin' It now!

Bookshop Hop was a great success as we saw many new faces and old friends turn up at the store.

Thursday through Sunday, August 18-21, 2011

Read more about it: Click here for article in Bookselling This Week.

Recent author guests that have been nominated for the Minnesota Book Awards 2011 are William Kent Krueger, Julie Kramer and Anton Treur.

Anton Treuer's visit to Little Falls on November 17, 2010 to sign books (The Assassination of Hole In the Day) and talk at the Weyerhaeuser Museum stirred up huge interest in the book and in the local history of Chiefs Hole in the Day the Elder and the Younger. We've sold 65 copies of the book to date (November 23, 2010) and have placed a substantial reorder to keep the book in stock for the holidays and beyond. The Assassination of Hole In The Day was also nominated for a MN Book Award.

Jess Lourey was featured on the August 28th Reading Minnesota Blog at http://readingminnesota.blogspot.com

Children's book author Matt Goldman who was scheduled to join us for the 2009 Little Falls Arts and Crafts Fair Book Signing was unable to attend becuase he was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work as a producer on the Disney Channel's The Wizards of Waverly Place and the award ceremony for his category was during the afternoon on Saturday September 12th. We've now learned that he WON!

Although Matt Goldman was not able to be with us as scheduled, he did stop by an supply us with handful of signed copies of Dingeltrot and also some of the biggest promotional bookmarks on the planet! Available with purchase while supplies last.

William Meissner's SPIRITS IN THE GRASS won the Midwest Book Award last spring (for the fiction novel category)--a 12 state award sponsored by the Midwest Independent Publishers Assn. Meissner was one of our visiting authors for the 2008 Arts and Crafts Fair Book signing.

Thomas Maltman who visited Bookin' It this past holiday season was just awarded the ALA Alex Award 2008 for his book The Night Birds. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Alex Awards are given to ten adult books with specific teen appeal. The Night Birds is now available in trade paperback.

The Night Birds by Thomas Maltman was among St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Best Books of 2007; Rocky Mountain News lists Maltman as the Best First Time Novelist of 2007.

“Maltman weaves this gripping story around real events that resulted in the mass execution of 38 Dakota Indians in 1862.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“A remarkably poignant narrative in time, an elegant portrayal of a period little known in American history.”—Rocky Mountain News

Jess Lourey who signed her Murder-By-Month Mystery series books at Bookin' It during the 2007 Little Falls Arts and Crafts Fair reported in to us on her most recent award. Lourey's Knee High by the Fourth of July was nominated for a Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery of 2007.

Minnesota Mystery Writer Monica Ferris at Linden Hill for the first 2008 Author Tea Retreat. Over 40 guests attended the four course Tea.